Lake Shore Engine Cab Disaster Kills One Wounds Two
A boiler washroom accident at the Lake Shore roundhouse last night caused a washout plug to blow under 150 pounds of steam and scalding water. Alex Simovics died at Clark hospital from extensive burns. Andrew Geras is gravely burned but survived. Foreman William Snyder escaped, credited with heroism in pulling Simovics free. Simovics, a Hungarian from 508 Sigh Street, and Geras, a Greek, were among three men in the cab when the accident occurred.
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Lake Shore
Wikhart Roundhouse
Alex Simovics
Clark
Simovics
Voreman Snyder
Simorics
Ter
Mr. Snyder
Foreman Snyder
Bimovics
Geras
Stephens
Clark Hospital
Lake Shore Company
Snyder
Lex
Simovies
Geras Wwasi
Alexander Simovics
Foreman
Tiekory
Luncheon Menu Describes Elegant Cold Soup and Pound Cake
The account notes a luncheon with a cold soup served in cups and a cauliflower preparation. A salad featured asparagus wrapped with pimentos and French dressing. Dessert included a pound cake with strawberry sauce poured tableside. A Sunday tea offered cold consommé, fruit salad, crackers and cream cheese, and ice cream in individual servings.
First Lincoln Penny Reported at Shenford Street Shop
A fragment notes the appearance of the first Lincoln penny with an owner cited on Shenford Street. The readable text is incomplete but references possession and a location in an urban area possibly connected to a coin discovery or sale.
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Shenford
Division’ Street
Ikha
Ways of Pickling Onions
A historical English pickling method described by Emma Paddock from Telford. The process includes peeling onions in hot water, brining with salt and alum, overnight rest, then adding mace, chillis, white peppercorns, and horseradish before sealing in vinegar. Another method uses a stronger salt brine, cloves and mace, and hot vinegar with sugar.
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Emma Paddock
Telford
Peapod Salad and Soup Techniques from Early Cookery
Instructions describe selecting fresh peas, pod prep, and slow cooking until tender. It covers making a pea soup with milk onion salt pepper and a butter flour roux, plus a cold-pea pod salad served with seasoned mayonnaise. Also includes a sour milk based dressing and long lasting kitchen dressing suitable for tomatoes potatoes slaw and asparagus.
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Cai
Fried Green Peppers Batter Fry
Scald bell peppers with stem ends removed then fill two thirds with cooked chicken or minced veal. Dip in stiff batter made of eggs melted butter milk and flour coat completely and fry in melted butter.
Creamed Pot Cheese Served As Garden Party Treat
In France this course is served at a garden party in small wicker baskets. Guests take the baskets home as souvenirs. The cheese is beaten with sweet cream to form a stiff froth, with powdered sugar, cream, and preserved strawberries or gooseberries as accompaniments.
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France
Magnesia as Dry Cleanser for Lace and Fabrics
The piece advises using magnesia in powder or cake form as a dry cleaner for lace and delicate fabrics. Apply by sprinkling on the stain areas, then fold and store in a drawer for a couple of days before shaking out. It also notes effectiveness on ice cream stains on delicate fabrics.
French Dressing for Fish Delights Newark Chef
A Newark woman known for her cooking uses a French dressing with olive oil vinegar salt and red pepper to baste baked fish. The method yields a delicious flavor.
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Newark
Quick Onion Soup From a Home Kitchen
Instructions describe making a hearty onion soup by frying onions in butter, sprinkling flour, adding boiling water to smooth, boiling and mashing potatoes, then adding milk and the potato mix. Season with salt and pepper, heat through, strain into a tureen, and top with parsley and croutons.
Egg Shells for Jelly tips from a resourceful woman
A reader notes a simple lunch setup tip. Break a small piece from the end of an eggshell, wash it, and use the shell as a jelly or jam receptacle for a noon lunch. Protect the open end with paper dipped in paraffin for cleanliness.
Ega Cutlets Cream Sauce Method
Melt butter and flour in a stewpan then gradually add milk while stirring until thick. Remove from heat add chopped hard boiled eggs parsley onion and seasoning. Shape into cutlets, dip in beaten egg, roll in cracker crumbs and fry until light brown in hot fat.
Meat Cakes From A Historic Recipe Note
A fragment describes meat cakes made from chopped or ground raw beet and potato, dredged in flour and browned quickly in hot drippings, then finished on the back of the stove for a few minutes. It mentions optional beaten egg and serving as an inexpensive appetizing dish.
fragmentary OCR note on sugar and bread preparation
A disjointed OCR snippet mentions bread, sugar, molasses and measurements, likely a kitchen or recipe item with phrases like steamed bread and sugar amounts. The text is incomplete and lacks coherent context or a clear event or subject.
Balloon records lift to 52,490 feet in Paris flight
The report notes Italian aviators in 1906 reached 20 500 feet on the Milano balloon trip over Mount Blanc and the Alps, while Coxwell and Glaisher set 37 000 feet in 1862 and Tissandier exceeded five miles in 1875 with a companion who died. A passengerless balloon from Paris in 1893 hit 52 490 feet.
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Mount
Blanc
Alps
Milano
Milan
Aix-le-Bains
Coxwell
Glaisher
Maniac Former Inmate Seeks Governor’s Protection
A deranged former patient from the State Hospital for the Insane to Augusta, who resisted arrest by barricading in his home and shooting an approaching officer, fled to South Carolina before unexpectedly visiting Governor Jon Brown in Atlanta to seek protection from alleged persecution of his relatives and public alarm. Police were alerted by telephoned call but he escaped.
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Atlanta
R. BE. Dunnington
State Hospital For the Insane
Augusta
South
Carolina
Jon Brown
Henamigtot
Tea Table Fittings and Silver Tea Accessories
The article describes ornate tea table fittings including octagonal and hinged tea caddies, cold water jugs, and silver spoons. It notes novelty items like Chinaman’s head teases, Siamese twin spoons, and harpoon tips on sugar tongs for lemon. It mentions glass lemon receptacles with intricate pierced designs and crystal linings.
Household tips for cleaning and kitchen care
Practical advice on cleaning and maintenance from old columns. Scrape fish, rub lemon peel on knives, avoid fruit attracting bees to birds, Soutache braid uses, leather polish, butter knife prep with cold liquid, clean kitchen fixtures with acids and ammonia, odorless dish mops with soda water, avoid sour flour, dry and bake to starch.
Markets Show Mixed Moves in Wheat and Corn
Chicago and New York reports list softening flour prices with steady to weak wheat and corn futures. Wheat declines noted for September and December, while butter eggs and potatoes show modest price ranges across grade and region.
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Chicago
Minnesota
New York
Kansas
Duluth
Bacon and Apple Breakfast Dish from Pan Fry Method
Fry bacon slowly until brown and crisp at edges then remove. Keep hot in oven. Fry pared cured apples in the retained bacon fat until brown on both sides. Arrange apples on heated dish with bacon slices around. Sprinkle powdered sugar if apples are tart.
Spruce Beer Recipe From Aged Instructions
Directions describe making spruce beer by boiling hops ginger and water then adding molasses brown sugar and yeast. After cooling strain into a tight cask ferment one or two days and bottle for use. Sprigs of spruce can replace the essence for flavor.
Risky Baking Advice From an Experienced Cook
An experienced cook cautions that cake baking is unsafe with a gas oven that is overdone. He advises checking the oven bottom for slips and damages before firing the gas to avoid accidents or ruined results.
Fragmentary Chicago note hints at 95 grade yearlings
A garbled Chicago fragment mentions yearlings and prices such as 95 and 6.10, with unclear references to goods or grades. Names, places, or events are unreadable, but the legible figures suggest a livestock or commodity listing.
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Chicago
Mishawaka Movement Promotes Beautiful System
A fragmentary note describes a push in Mishawaka to adopt the new Sinterurban station concept this evening. It emphasizes conversion of every member to the merits of the system and argues for the beauty of the Mishawaka arrangement.
Two men fined for hunting on game preserve in Indiana
Bert Gibson and Charles Weyland, brought into Justice Brumbaugh's court yesterday, pleaded guilty to hunting on a state game preserve stocked with Hungarian partridges. Wyland paid 55 dollars in fine and costs. Gibson's sentence was suspended. The case cites a 1909 act protecting game birds and prohibits hunting on preserves unless allowed.
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Bert Gibson
Charles Weyland
Brumbaugh
Wyland
Gibson
Ernest G. ‘Hammond
Indiana
Hammond
Footpad Knocked Out by Intended Victim
Fragmentary OCR text describes a street incident where a footpad was knocked out by the person he targeted. Names and details are garbled, but the core event notes a confrontation and discharge of violence ending with the attacker subdued by the intended victim. The snippet mentions a "Lake Shore" and a team or staff reference amid damaged context.
Irish pony found owner Italian named Serrira Marke
Report says the pony found on land is owned by an Italian named Serrira Marke who entertained visitors recently. Officers investigate reports of neighborhood women being annoyed by some of Marke's guests over the past week or two.
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Ganehan
Sabard
Serrira
Marke
SLAIN WOMAN FOUND IN CEMETERY NEAR HOLY SEPULCHER
Anna Schumacher seven teen years old missing since Saturday was found at Holy Sepulcher cemetery in Spokane Washington beaten to death with a stone and assaulted before death. National irrigation congress opened with speeches accusing Ballinger of undermining Roosevelt conservation policy.
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Rochelster
Anna Schumacher
Sepulcher
Spokane
Wash
Ballinger
National Irrigation Congress
Impeachment Trial Opens for Washington State Official
Olympia August 13 The Washington legislature convened in special session to act as a court of impeachment for State Insurance Commissioner John H Shively charged after a June inquiry into the state insurance department. The case follows months of political scandal and accusations of mismanagement across state government.
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Oympia
Wash
Washigton
Sit &S
State Insurance
John H. Sshively
State Insurance Department
Shively
State of Washington
Calvin Parent Stops Marriage Of Youths
Traverse W Mourning of Cassopolis and Retta Vauga of Calvin town Ship sought a marriage license in Superior Court yesterday. The groom was 22 and the bride 21 but a Cas splrs attorney urged the license not be recorded as the groom is only seventeen. The father persuaded the youths to return home.
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Traverse
W. Mourning
Cassopolis
Retta
Vauga
Calvin Town
Menning
Superrior
Cassplrs
Fleming
Eikhart
Hausfeld Recovers After Acetylene Plant Explosion
Bert Hausfeld who was badly burned in an explosion at the Davis Acetylene plant three weeks ago is recovering rapidly and hosting a number of friends from Chicago. Guests include Misses Lillian Friebolin Anna Nenders Josie Shaw May Shaw Amelia Peppmneyer Myrtle Williams and Mr Wm Prill A Elting Arnold Wolf Robert Geetawar and Mrs Robert Shaw.
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Bert Hausfeld
Davis
Chicago
Lillian’ Friebolin
Annenders
Josie ‘Shaw
May , Shaw
Amelia* Peppmneyer
George Barney and Capt Barney Return From Sandusky Ceremony
George Barney and Capt WL Barney arrived back after attending a Sandusky ceremony on August 7. They were among the oldest present and placed in the front row for all events. The captain recalled sitting on the same porch seventy years ago and receiving his first pay for work.
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George Barney
WL Barney
Barney
Rami
Sandusky
Drew
Misses Lefa Pollard and guests at Simonton Lake cottage
Misses Lefa Pollard and Mrs Gertrude Roberts with Dr Baumgartner Mrs Chas Clouse and Miss Kellar are spending a few days as guests at the Pollard cottage on Simonton Lake.
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Lefa Pollard
Gertrude
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Movics
Andrew Geras
Feionsonne
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Urs
Maniac
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Abreu
Mishawaka
Chas. Wylarid
Justice Brumbaugh
Edward
Gary
Em- Tiloye
Auile
Ap Rc Ythe
Ean
Calvin
Housefeld
Hooe
E Pennan
Railwiis' Nal
Kielswind
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